“Supreme Court to again consider federal protections for minority voters”
Robert Barnes WaPo preview of the Brnovich argument.
Category Archives: Supreme Court
Larry Tribe Calls Out Justice Thomas’s Trolling of Heather Gerken on Election Fraud in Recent Dissent
Tribe in The Hill:
Justice Thomas’s solo dissent is another matter altogether. The question at hand concerned only the relationship between a state legislature and the state constitution as construed by the state’s highest court. But Thomas seized the opportunity… Continue reading
“Dissent by Justice Thomas in election case draws fire for revisiting baseless Trump fraud claims”
John Fritze for USA Today.
“A partisan battle in an overreach of a case”: Minority voters are caught between the political parties at the Supreme Court, with the Voting Rights Act hanging in the balance (My SCOTUSBlog Preview of Brnovich)
I have written this analysis for SCOTUSBlog. It begins:
Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee is a strange voting rights case. Rather than the typical case, in which a voting rights group representing minority voters sues a state or locality for… Continue reading
Biden Administration Reverses Position Before Supreme Court in Arizona Voting Rights Act Case (Brnovich), But Does Not Say Plaintiffs Should Win
From the letter:
The Department has now concluded that, although it does not disagree with the conclusion in that brief that neither Arizona measure violates Section 2’s results test, the Department does not adhere to the framework for application… Continue reading
“The Illiberalization of American Election Law: A Study in Democratic Deconsolidation”
Very much looking forward to reading this from Jim Gardner:
For many years, the dominant view among American election law scholars has been that the Supreme Court’s constitutional jurisprudence of democratic practice got off to a promising start during the… Continue reading
“Supreme Court won’t fast-track Trump challenges to election results”
WaPo:
As expected, the Supreme Court refused Monday to fast-track a batch of challenges to the presidential election filed by President Trump and his allies.The rejections came without comment or noted dissent, and were formal notifications of what already… Continue reading
Breaking: Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case About Disclosure of Funders to Certain Nonprofit Organizations, With Implications That Could Lead Courts to Strike Some Campaign Finance Disclosure Laws
The Court’s order list is here.
Here’s an earlier explanation from the Philanthropy Roundtable:
For those following donor-privacy issues, there was an important development in the case known as Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Becerra in mid-December. The… Continue reading
Trump Campaign Files Yet Another Quixotic Supreme Court Petition Seeking to Overturn Election Results from Wisconsin, Misspelling “Laches”
Can’t make this stuff up:
⚖️NEW: For the second time in two days, Trump files a SCOTUS petition re: Biden's win in WISCONSIN. Trump campaign notes that the suit's dismissal in federal appeals court was not based on the… Continue reading
Pennsylvania, Opposing Trump Effort to Expedite Consideration of One of Its Bonkers Election Challenges, Calls Argument About Trump’s Delay “Profoundly Incoherent”
The opposition also says this:
The Trump Campaign threatens that “if this matter is not timely resolved, not only Petitioner, but the Nation as a whole may suffer injury from the resulting confusion.” Motion at 5. But it is the… Continue reading
Derek Muller Lays Out THE Conservative Case Against Texas’s Bizarre Suit to Steal the Election for Trump at the Supreme Court
Derek at Law & Liberty:
The Electoral College is a designedly decentralized process for the selection of the President of the United States. Each State may choose its presidential electors in the manner that the legislature deems appropriate.The State of… Continue reading
Trump Campaign Files Ridiculous New Expedited Cert Petition, Seeking Supreme Court Order to Overturn PA Election Results, Relying on Fake Electors for Trump from PA as Reported by the Epoch Times
John Eastman should be ashamed of this petition for cert and motion to expedite.
I won’t go through all of the ridiculous things here, but this is an attempt to challenge PA Supreme Court cases in October and mid-November.… Continue reading
Breaking: Supreme Court, on 6-3 Vote, Ducks Census Ruling, Holding There is No Standing and Remanding for Further Proceedings; What It Means
In an unsigned (per curiam) order over 3 dissents, the Supreme Court has bounced a case back to a lower court that challenged a Trump Administration plan to exclude certain non-citizens from the census count used to apportion seats among… Continue reading
“New Supreme Court filing includes blatantly wrong information about Michigan”
Detroit Free Press:
A long-shot legal effort relying on conspiracy theories and inaccurate analyses to argue President Donald Trump actually won Michigan included additional blatantly false information in a new filing with the U.S. Supreme Court this week. The… Continue reading